Ash-barrel



(No Model.)

J. s. RICE & E. B. WHITTIER. ASH BARREL.

No. 424,355. Patented Mar. 25, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN S. RICE, OF CAMBRIDGE, AND EZRA B. XVI'IITTIER, OF VINTI-IROP,

MASSACHUSETTS.

ASH-BARREL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Fatent No. 424,355, dated March25, 1890.

Application filed November 26,1889. Serial No. 331,651. (No model.)

T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN S. RICE and EZRA B. WHITTIEE, citizens of theUnited States of America, and respectively residents of the city ofCambridge, in the county of MiddleseX, and of the town of Winthrop, inthe county of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Ash-Barrels, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

This invention particularly relates to ashbarrels, &c., which are madeof sheet metal; and it consists of a series of vertical air-passagesabout the outside of the barrel formed of corrugated sheet metalattached to the barrel and closed at their upper ends, with sideopenings below said closed ends, and open at their lower end portions,all as particularly described hereinafter, and pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a sideelevation of the improved barrel of this invention. Fig. 2 is a centralvertical section. Fig. 3 is a plan view. Fig. at is a horizontalsection, line 4c 4, Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 5 is a vertical section indetail, as hereinafter appears.

In the drawings, A and B represent a barrel for ashes, made ofsheetiron, preferably, or of other suitable sheet metal or material oflike character, A being the body and B the bottom. The body A isstiffened or strengthened at its upper and lower ends with an interiorencircling hoop 0 c respectively, of metal, rigidly attached by rivets aor otherwise, and the bottom B rests on the lower hoop and is secured inplace by rivets or otherwise suitably.

O is a sheathing surrounding the outside of the body A. This sheathingis made of strip or sheet metal which. is corrugated across its widthand suitable, end to end, to entirely encircle the body A, extendingfrom at or near its lower end A to at or near its upper end A The wholesheathing, placed about the barrel as stated, is secured in place byrivets b or otherwise, leaving a series of vertical spaces D, each openat its lower end cl, but closed at its upper end, (2

The corrugated sheathing C may extend to the top A of the barrel, asshown in dotted lines at g, Fig. 2. The dotted lines a, Fig. 2, show thesheathing as extended to the lower end A of the barrel, and in thiscase, which, however, is not the preferable one, there must be openingsor ports (not shown) in the sides of the passages D, the same ashereinafter described, for the upper end portions of the passages.Again, the sheathing may be continuous with the upper and lower portionsA A of the barrel, as in Fig. 5, and the spaces D, secured by an innerlining H, covering the corrugated portion of the sheathing O and securedthereto and also to the opposite end portions of the sheathing.

The vertical passages D are in any case closed at their upper ends, andnear the same and in the sides of the passages there are openings orpassages (Z (See particularly Fig. 2.) l

The sheathing imparts strength and stiffness to the barrel-body, andalso makes the body practically proof against acting as a medium fortransmitting heat of the contents of the barrel to outside thereof, theadvantages of all of which are so obvious as to need no particularmention.

The sheathing may be in one continuous length or separate lengths joinedtogether and in divisions or sections about the barrel, vertically orhorizontally; but the construction particularly shown and described ismost efficient and practical.

Closed upper ends of the passages D obviously guard the passages againstbeing accidentally clogged from the entrance of ashes therein, which, ifthey were opened, might be liable to occur.

This invention is not to be limited to the particular shape of ashbarrel or receptacle.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

A barrel or receptacle for ashes, 850., made of sheet metal and its bodyprovided with a sheathing C of sheet metal, which is suitably our handsin the presence of two subscribing attached thereto and is corrugated,produewitnesses.

ing, vertical spaces D, open at their lower and closed at their upperends, but having a %%-E side port or ports d at or near their upperends, substantially as described, for the pur- \Vitnesses: posespecified. ALBERT W. BROWN,

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set FRANK G. VHITE.

